Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Tuesday, January 30, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 344
Scripture: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say not of this building. (Heb 9:11)
Note: 2Cor 5:1, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Our dissolution in Christ took place when we died together with Him and were buried with Him by baptism into His death. So just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (Rom 6:4).
Yet, even though we are new creation in Christ Jesus, newly regenerated and recreated to walk in newness of life, some believers still ignorantly allow themselves to be compromised through philosophy and vain deceit after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world. Philosophies of men are designed by the enemy working through men to appeal to the mind of man, to impress the searching mind and to convince the mind of the person that deeper truths will be attained with further search and effort. These eventually lead to deception, futility and more confusion.
In Col 2:8, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” The Greek word used for ‘spoil’ in this context means to rob you, to lead you away from the truth, to become a captive and a slave, subject to one’s sway. The most disgusting truth about this verse is that the deceived person is carried off away from the truth just like the way a booty is carried off by the victors after conquest in war.
Believers easily lose sight of the import of our new walk with Christ. The enemy has not lost sight of this truth, that as Christians, we’re arrayed in spiritual battle against him. His main target therefore in this battle is to be able to carry off his booty away, which unfortunately is us. He deploys the weapons of philosophy of men, vain deceit and traditions of men that have their foundations rooted in the rudiments of the world. As believers, we’ve an obligation to ourselves to be discernible and be alert to the machinations of the enemy that are intended to bring us to bondage.
Food for thought: Believers need to go back to the basics of the word of God, bringing themselves in subjection to the authority of the word.
Declaration: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1Cor 9:27
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
